I just got wind of this site and it’s videos. Kudos to Jay Goldman for the info.
Kutiman is a DJ from Jerusalem who’s painstakingly taken various youtube clips of people playing music or singing and mixed their audio together to form not 1 but 7 different songs! All of which are very well produced considering the limitations of the sources.
TIME magazine reports on the particulars…On Mar. 7, the Jerusalem-born DJ (whose offline name is Ophir Kutiel) launched ThruYOU, a project with a simple enough premise: to create visual symphonies using random YouTube footage of school concerts, piano lessons, weirdly intimate soliloquies and American Idol-esque performances uploaded by people across the world. In one of his creations, dubbed “This Is What It Became,” the 26-year-old artist juxtaposes clips of a “Glitch Monster Love Bot,” a tutorial called “How to Play Conga Drums,” a dimly lit monologue for the legalization of marijuana and a demo for a toy keyboard/ tape deck that YouTuber CosmoHelectraStudio, who posted the video of the gadget, describes as “a very bad sound” and “a poor tape player.”
Check out the TIME article here or go directly to the ThruYOU site.
Here’s just one of the videos/songs. Just awesome.